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PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for November 1985") ["The improvement of the economy, evident since the beginning of the autumn, continues..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The French political scene: anxieties and ambitions") ["[The Right] are uncertain of holding on to their apparent [election campaign] lead, and torn by differences of personalities and policies."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting") ["...the press again underlines the 'emptiness' of present Franco-German relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French industrial policy") ["The essential fact is that the thirty years from 1945 to 1975... brought France's first full industrial revolution"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for December 1985") ["...the improvement visible since the beginning of the autumn has continued."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("RPR/UDF election platform: contents") ["A key document, on which the right-wing government likely to emerge from the elections next March will initially base its policies"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Internal French politics") ["The [election] campaign is slowly warming up."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (terrorist bombings in Paris) [message of support & solidarity to French government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Internal French politics") ["The Right need to close ranks and turn their fire on the PS rather than themselves if they are to be sure of a clear-cut [election] victory"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("CFL ceremony at Canterbury: President Mitterrand's current preoccupations") ["...the elections increasingly dominate [his] thinking... But polls still show the RPR/UDF likely to win a clear majority. Terrorism has become an election issue in the last week."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for January 1986") ["...prospects are good provided that the lower oil price and the depreciation of the dollar are sustained."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Franco-German summit: 27/28 February") ["...nothing very new... [but] a useful event..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["...France is probably only a week away from electing a Right wing majority to govern with a socialist President..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["The right are expected to emerge the clear winners... Chirac is the front-runner for Prime Minister..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for February 1986") ["Some encouraging economic results... in the run-up to the legislative elections..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French elections: Mitterrand") ["...undiminished appetite for power... expressed satisfaction about the state of Anglo-French relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections") ["A right wing victory, but much narrower than expected, that leaves Mitterrand considerable latitude..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French Legislative elections: the results") ["A slender majority for the RPR/UDF, much smaller than they hoped and the socialists feared."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French elections: the prospects") ["A sharp swing to the right: But with... only a very slim majority... Mitterrand has considerable latitude in choice of Prime Minister"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The new Government") [list of Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Statement by Chirac") ["basis on which his Government will cohabit with the President"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French Legislative elections summary") ["apparently Mitterrand wanted Simone Veil but she failed to secure the backing of other UDF leaders... hard bargaining between Mitterrand and Chirac over Cabinet appointments"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Formation of the new French Government: messages") [courtesy letters from MT to Fabius, Chirac & Mitterrand] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New French Agriculture Minister") ["...seen as confirmation that a Chirac government will...take a tough line in defence of French interests in the CAP..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New Government") ["...biographical notes on key members..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chirac's Government") ["...Mitterrand has given him what he wanted... [on] the economy and electoral reform... [Chirac] has not had his way over foreign affairs and defence..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT telegram to Chirac ("Message from the Prime Minister to Monsieur Jacques Chirac") ["...congratulations on your success in the recent elections..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT telegram to Fabius ("Message from the Prime Minister to M Laurent Fabius") [on his leaving office] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("New French Government: privatisation programme") ["...would like to send experts to London to discuss British experience of denationalisation..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The Franc and the EMS") ["...inflation in France has significantly outpaced that of her biggest trading partner, the FRG..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("France/Germany") [meeting of Foreign Ministers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: EMS realignment and accompanying measures") ["to maintain downward pressure on inflation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The new Government's economic programme") ["change in a liberal direction...[while] safeguarding the progress made by the previous government in dealing with inflation and industrial relations"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Further liberalisation of the French economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for April 1986") ["mixed"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for May 1986") ["mostly bad news"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Mitterrand/Kohl meeting: 17 June") ["The habit of exchanging views regularly at this level is probably more important than the precise content of the discussion"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jun 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("The French political scene") ["Opinion polls indicate that Chirac has lost ground and that opposition to the Government's policies has grown, but that Mitterrand is now more popular than since the early months of his Presidency"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Aug 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French politics") ["Chirac's government has proved that cohabitation is no obstacle to action and that power has shifted decisively to Matignon"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for August 1986") ["better economic news... But unemployment rose again"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: draft 1987 central government budget") ["For the first time in nearly 30 years government spending... will decrease in real terms"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Sep 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French exchange controls: announcement delayed") ["likelihood of freedom for individual savers... substantially diminished..."] [declassified Dec 2014]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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